Contact: Beatriz Marinello Email: beatriz@chesseducators.com Web: http://www.ChessEducators.com [MAP] 7-round Swis
s tournament. 90 min/40 moves + 30 minutes for the rest of the game with a
n increment of 30 seconds per move\, starting from move 1. Default time at
the beginning of all rounds will be 30 minutes.

Contact: Sergey Email: cc
moiseev@mail.ru Web: http://opensochi.vphs.ru [MAP]\nThe Pedagogical Chess Union
invites all chess players in Sochi in August. The Pedagogical Chess Union
will organize the Open Sochi 2018 chess festival from August 21 (arrival
day) to August 26 (Rapid / departure day) 2018. This project is being held
for the third consecutive year.\nWithin the framework of the chess
project\, there will be tournaments in classical chess\, in rapid chess\,
as well as a challenge contest.

Contact: Antanas Zapolskis Email: anzapo@gmail.com Web: http://www.icio.lt\nChess players
of all qualification levels are eligible. Players of differing chess quali
fications will receive time control adjustments to equalize play condition
s (stronger players will receive fewer minutes which will be added to weak
er players). There will be nine rounds of qualifying rounds (Swiss system)
. The top 64 participants will be invited to the final play-off | Entry form

Contact: Mykhailo Seleznev (International Arbiter) or Oleg K
oval (Tournament Director) Email: tov
arisch18@meta.ua [MAP]\nInternational tournament where players (IMs and G
Ms) from different regions of Ukraine and certain foreign countries will p
articipate. The tournament will take place during the school autumn vocati
on. Therefore\, there will be a separate group for juniors. If juniors par
ticipate in Open group\, there will be separate prizes and awards for them
| Details

Contact: John McMorrow Email: chairperson@icu.ie Web: h
ttp://www.icu.ie/events/866 [MAP]\n The Irish Women’s Cham
pionship 2017 will take place from November 10-12 in Buswells Hotel\, Dubl
in 2. The event features the best female Irish chess players and has a pri
ze fund of 800 euro. The event will be contested over 5 FIDE-rated rounds
| Entry form

Contact: John McMorrow Email: chairperson@icu.ie Web: https://www.icu.ie/events/1021 [MAP]\nThe Irish Rapid and B
litz championships are open to anyone with a 2\,000 euro prize fund. The R
apid is played over 7 rounds with a time control of 15 minutes + 10 second
increment and will be FIDE rated. \n The Blitz is played over 11 ro
unds with a time control of 3 minutes + 2 second increment and will be FID
E rated